laboratfjoy which I accepted.

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Radiological Laboratory building which was to house the synchrotron, a
70 MeV machine.

I was to determine the radiobiological effectiveness

(RBE) of its x-ray beam.

That's about all#f I can say about that.

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your other interviewees talk more than I do.

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Some do some don't.

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What was the advantage of mice over rats?

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the laboratory.

BERGE:

And what happened after you were there for a couple of

years and then wet left?

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1947,

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Radiological Laboratory in San Francisco from 1949 to about 1962

or 1963.

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